The Special Interest Group in International Information Issues

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III) is pleased to announce the following winners of its 13th International Paper Contest:

First Place Winner:Melody M. Madriad. A Study of Digital Curator Competencies: A survey of experts. (Philippines)

Second Place Winner:Maryam Mousavizadeh, et al. Visualizing of the Structure of Subject Trends in Persian Articles Published During 2008-2012 in Information Organization Domain. (Iran)

The principal authors of each of the three winning papers will be awarded a two-year individual membership to ASIS&T. In addition, the first place winner will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the ASIS&T Annual Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 1-5, 2013.

The winning papers will be considered for publication by Elsevier’s International Information and Library Review (IILR).

We thank the jury members for their hard work and our donors for their compassion which makes it possible to develop and sustain this international network of scholars in developing countries.